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Note: junior since his father styled himself as senior.
OBITUARY J.R. Gready, Jr., Retired Furniture Dealer, Dies James Rodolph Gready, Jr., civic leader and retired vice president and manager of Haverty Furniture Co., Inc. died yesterday, August 25, 1965 at age of 76. He died at his residence, 6 Sheridan Road, South Windermere.
Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. at Grace Protestant Episcopal Church with the Rev. Ralph Sadler Meadowcroft officiating. Burial, directed by Stuhr's will be in St. Andrew's Protestant Episcopal Churchyard.
Pallbearers will be Harold P. Wolff, Ellis C. Bradley, George deSaussure, John A Sottile, G. Fred Worsham and Alfred E. Barili.
Honorary pallbearers will be vestrymen of Grace Protestant Episcopal Church and Dr. Robert Wilson, H.W. Hopke, R.F. Britton, R.A. Jones, Rawson Haverty, Russell Bellman, W.H. Slater, and C. Bissell Jenkins, Jr.
Mr Gready was born May 30, 1889 in Charleston, a son of James R. Gready and Mrs. Julia Dawson Gready. He was a member of Grace Church where he was a former vestryman.
He began his career with Haverty's in 1912, joining the firm as a salesman. When he retired as manager in 1957, he remained director and vice president of the company locally.
The National Retail Furniture Assn. in 1956 named him and ten other men from throughout the nation as "All American Merchant." He served as a director of the Southern Retail Furniture Assn. and a member of the American Marketing Congress.
Mr. Gready was a director of the Charleston Chamber of Commerce, a member of the executive board and past president of the Retail Merchants Assn.
Also, he was a member of the board of governors of the Charleston Municipal Airport.
He also served as a director of the YMCA, past president of the Charleston Lions Club, a member of the St. Andrews Society, the New England Society and the Washington Light Infantry. He was director of the Square and Level Club and a past master of the Solomon's Lodge 1, AFM.
Surving, in addition to his widow, Mrs. Bessie Adair Gready, are two daughters, Mrs. James G. Patey and Mrs. Clyde H. Turner, both of Charleston; a sister, Mrs. R.J. Lamb of Jacksonville, Fla., and a grandson, Richard G. Fessler of Charleston.
Note: He was the third Gready to carry this name but referred to himself as
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